Exploring Lens visualizations
If you’re a newbie in the field of visualizing data, then you have come to the right place! If you are not sure how you wish to get started on creating a visualization or which type of visualization you wish to use to represent your data, Lens is a great way to simply drag and drop the fields you want to build a graph on. And voilà – it will create a vertical bar graph to start with. We can change the type of the graph to any other representation that we prefer later.
The ease and flexibility of the drag-and-drop experience is what makes the Lens visualization one sure spot for pretty much everything that one wishes to do with representing data in the form of a visualization.
Let us look at the process of creating a sample Lens visualization process step by step:
- Get to know the Lens page; there is a name for everything on the interface, as shown in the following screenshot:
![Figure 4.1 – Layout of the Lens interface in Kibana](https://static.packt-cdn.com/products/9781803232164/graphics/image/B18313_04_1.jpg)
Figure 4.1 –...